TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - The Trauma Score as applied to penetrating trauma
JO  - Annals of emergency medicine
A1  - Sacco, William J.
A1  - Champion, Howard R.
A1  - Gainer, P. S.
A1  - Morelli, S. A.
A1  - Fallen, S.
A1  - Lawnick, M. A.
SP  - 415
EP  - 418
VL  - 13
IS  - 6
N2  - The Trauma Score is a simple physiological measure of injury severity that has been shown to have a high correlation with mortality for blunt trauma patients. In this study, the Trauma Score was evaluated on two subsets of penetrating trauma patients. Results showed that the Trauma Score had a relative information gain of 0.83 and 0.87, an excellent rating in comparison with a possible perfect rating of 1.0. The Score had modest numbers of false negatives (13/64 for the design set, and 3/380 for the test set) and a low number of false positives (5/380 for the design set, and 3/380 for the test set). The Trauma Score is thus an accurate predictor of mortality for both blunt and penetrating trauma patients.
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SN  - 0196-0644
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -